panicked - Story 100030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The image, a series of jagged lines forming a grinning face, filled him with a potent sense of unease. His blood ran cold. He felt a constriction in his throat. He took a step back, his eyes glued to the disturbing artwork. "What… what is this, Daniel?" he stammered, staring at his nephew's drawing.

Daniel, his sister's son, looked up with a wide, innocent smile. “It’s Mr. Snuggles! He’s my friend!” The words echoed, each one a hammer blow. He felt a sudden, powerful urge to get away, to disappear.

He didn't respond, couldn’t. He just turned and walked quickly out the door, the drawing and Daniel's image imprinted on the back of his eyelids. He kept walking, away, away, away.

Emotion: panicked

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.44 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.00

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion panicked. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 panicked stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the panicked emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the panicked vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`worse`	0.317
`😫`	0.294
`😖`	0.285
`😰`	0.285
`escape`	0.283

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.432
`a`	-0.374
`de`	-0.296
`楽し`	-0.262
`happy`	-0.258